Handbook of Veterinary Pain Management - Softcover

Gaynor DVM MS DACVA DAAPM, James S.; Muir III DVM MSc PhD DACVA DACVECC, William W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323089356 ISBN 13: 9780323089357

Verlag: Mosby, 2014

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You can trust this user-friendly guide to help you meet the increasing need for effective pain management in the animals you treat. It provides instant access to clinically relevant information on pain assessment, pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical treatment options, guidelines for managing acute and chronic pain, and unique aspects of pain management in dogs, cats, horses, cattle, birds, reptiles, ferrets, and rabbits.

• The latest information on complementary and alternative strategies for pain management offers the guidance to help you incorporate non-pharmacologic treatments into their pain management programs.
• Numerous boxes and tables summarize pharmacologic protocols and clinical applications, with dosages, indications, contraindications, and side effects to provide you with the comprehensive drug information needed to find the most effective and appropriate treatment.
• User-friendly format helps you quickly and easily find essential information.
• Case studies illustrating realistic clinical scenarios help you learn how to assess and manage pain in the clinical setting.

• NEW! Eight new chapters include the latest information on:

• the human-animal bond
• local and regional techniques
• preventive and multimodal analgesia
• energy modalities
• acupuncture
• physical examination with emphasis on isolating and locating pain
• therapeutic goals
• pain in laboratory animals
• NEW! Completely updated drug information, with new agents, doseforms, and routes provides the most current pain management therapies for use in the clinical setting.
• NEW! Expanded sections on the cat and exotics address the growing popularity of these pets by providing additional species-specific information.

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William W. Muir, III, DVM, MSc, PhD, DACVA, DACVECC, is Chief Medical Officer at The Animal Medical Center in New York and a recently retired professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Muir is board certified in both anesthesiology and emergency and critical care. He was a distinguished professor at Ohio State for over 20 years and trained many anesthesiologists in the US and abroad. He also has written hundreds of journal articles, is the recipient of many professional awards, and is the co-author of Elsevier’s Handbook of Veterinary Pain Management (with Gaynor) and Equine Anesthesia: Monitoring and Emergency Therapy (with Hubbell).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mosby
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0323089356
• ISBN 13: 9780323089357
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 640
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar